Art-chitecture from Marshttps://artchitecturefrommars.com
Art, Design, and Random Shenanigans from HI SEAS 4Thu, 20 Jul 2017 22:49:38 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com/https://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.pngArt-chitecture from Marshttps://artchitecturefrommars.com
First Work Portfoliohttps://artchitecturefrommars.com/2017/07/20/first-work-portfolio/
https://artchitecturefrommars.com/2017/07/20/first-work-portfolio/#respondThu, 20 Jul 2017 22:09:42 +0000http://artchitecturefrommars.com/?p=626]]>Ok so this is a piece of work that’ll be changing…well, always, as more projects get done, but for NOW it is the summation of any project I felt didn’t completely suck from my time at university. Honestly, you go through some of your old work and you just…shudder! I think I compare myself too much to the people who are putting super crazy good stuff up on Issuu as well, just…you see the projects people have put together and you’re like…how’d they even do that!? Everyone is their own worst critic I suppose.

So! Here is the latest portfolio. Just go full screen and enjoy the renders!

The big project in this one is of course the design work of the dissertation, which you can see on a prior blog entry, but there is also a lot of the urban planning graduate work, multi-use buildings, etc and whatnot. A bit of art, which you can also see in past entries to this blog.

I’ve sent out the portfolio before this of course, showing pals that I got it done, but am trying to keep this more up to date. I’ll hopefully have more art, info on the book I’m putting together, and awesome architecture projects as they come along!

I know it’s been forever, but things are starting to happen a little bit. The last few weeks have been me finishing portfolio (I should really put that up) and starting to apply for jobs around the world. I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here yet, but I was fortunate enough to be asked to partake in a series of discussions on various issues facing society today.

Essentially, I was flown out to Greece, and was part of a group of people from around the world sharing different viewpoints and attempting to discuss (sometimes not always calmly) these issues based on our own ideas on what’s right or moral. The show is called “What’s the Right Thing to Do” and has an online link that will let you watch the first episode, which centers around the immigration crisis. While more a debate on ethical examples than a specific real world story, you might enjoy seeing your notions of right and wrong challenged, or not. I’ve linked it below.

There will be 5 episodes released over the next month and change, I’ll try to throw them up here and for anyone that would enjoy a nice philosophical debate, enjoy! I will preface this by saying most of us gently disagreed with each other on specific, light points. But there’s one person in there who is shockingly for or against just…some pretty fundamental issues. It was discomfiting to actually have these debates while filming because of the ideology of that individual, eek.

But, I must get to the library and keep working! I’ll try to get some more random updates about work and life and the crazy things that randomly happen. Till then…I dunno, stay groovy yo!

]]>https://artchitecturefrommars.com/2017/07/18/first-episode-of-dutch-discussion-series/feed/0tenkennokaitenThe Dissertationhttps://artchitecturefrommars.com/2017/04/30/the-dissertation/
https://artchitecturefrommars.com/2017/04/30/the-dissertation/#respondSun, 30 Apr 2017 01:27:27 +0000http://artchitecturefrommars.com/?p=587]]>I’ve finally finished the doctoral work, phew! It’s not perfect, though nothing you put years into ever will be, but deadlines are deadlines and you’ve gotta submit the work eventually! It’s a huge load off being “done”, even if I still need to do my public presentation. Still, I’ve had my last university class ever, have 3 copies being bound…guess it’s time to clean up the resume and start looking for jobs! If anyone needs a space architect at their firm, hit me up, really!

The link! I’ve placed it on Issuu for anyone to read, but I gotta warn you..it’s kinda long.

And a few pictures, since I’ve got them in there, but hey how many people are really going to read to the end anyways right? This’ll save you some trouble…dissertation graphic design and renderings!

A description of the benefits or lack thereof of Earth as an Extreme Environment. Spoiler alert, we do pretty well here and it’s not that harsh. Composition of the atmosphere and some fun facts.Wanna live on the Moon? You’ll need to have a basic review of the environment first. Know before you go!Definitely trying to get to this place, who knows if that’ll happen anytime soon…but hey fingers crossed. I’d so give this one a shot if SpaceX or whoever decided to send me one of these days!Hey space is an environment too! Or sorta the lack of one…but hey, semantics. We could do really well here, it’ll just take some ingenuity and a little bit of hard work. Ok an indescribable amount of hard work, but probably less than you’d imagine. Someday!A potential interior of a dome purely meant for crew relaxation and socialization. Less of a waste of space than you’d imagine, you can’t live forever in a place built for machine efficiency.Northern half of the HI-SEAS quarry if my design work were ever to be seriously funded and they let me build it. Of course that’s not going to happen…but it’d be cool! I wish I’d had that much space to wander around…le sigh…The entire project as viewed from above. Every major skylight in our quarry capped and inhabited, full of life, plants and people, rock on. It’d be a huge step forward in our understanding of how to make these things on the actual Mars. And to think my year was spent in JUST that tiny grey dome…so cramped!

Hope you all enjoyed the pics and the hours upon hours of reading! Been fun putting all this together, and kinda nightmarish at times, but hey such is grad school. Finally…free!

So below, I’ve attached some of the stuff I actually have the links for. Podcasts for the mission, local news, a bit of radio, you get the idea. Just the outreach for the mission that’ll help people know what we’re doing and why. Feel free to tweet or facebook or whatever the links and help the cause!

There’s a bunch of other random stuff of course, I was talking with the media guy from UH while he was ferrying Carmel and I around to some of the above interviews, and apparently there’s over 2000 stories about the mission out in the world at large. I mean sheesh!

Honestly, half the reason I’m posting these is because I always feel like I never put up enough pictures of the crew or videos/GIF’s of the time spent actually in mission, and now…you’ve got videos and professionally edited audio, haha! Way better than anything I could ever do, so now any of you can hopefully see a lot more about us and the mission, yes!

I’ll try to post more about…space architecture in school, the upcoming Hawaii State Legislature thing discussing aerospace in education, and other amazingly nerdy topics you all might enjoy. Till then…I have a presentation due this afternoon and have to get on it! Grad school stops for no man, or Martian!

Till we meet again!

]]>https://artchitecturefrommars.com/2016/09/20/pertinent-media/feed/0tenkennokaitenGetting Out!https://artchitecturefrommars.com/2016/08/28/getting-out/
https://artchitecturefrommars.com/2016/08/28/getting-out/#commentsSun, 28 Aug 2016 18:16:27 +0000http://artchitecturefrommars.wordpress.com/?p=559]]>So I thought I’d just throw a short post up because I have 63 minutes left in the mission and there are swarms of people crunching around the dome outside. Apparently we’re going to have about 70 media personnel up here in addition to HI-SEAS folks and the family/friends that managed to come. As for us in here…well, everything is done so it’s basically hanging out doing nothing till we get to leave. Dull right?

Can’t even have breakfast because there’s a huge buffet that’s just waiting for us and you can’t ruin your appetite for fresh foods with rehydrated milk and the other mummified food in here, no no!

So…just an hour of hanging out…le sigh!

It’s going to be cool to see family, with my travels and living in Hawai’i while most of the relatives still dwell in the misty forests of Montana I don’t get to see them often, some of them that are coming (Grandma!) I haven’t seen in like two years or more! It’d be nice if we could just hang out and catch up without hours of media (I hate having my picture taken) but what can you do…maybe if I bolt out the airlock while everyone is distracted at the other exit I can just jog down the mountain! Tempting…if implausible, I’m sure they’ve got scouts on the road…

Anyways! Just killing time till the door opens, I get fresh food and some Earth-coffee, and finally get to see my family! It’s nuts to think that in 5 days I’ll be getting on a plane and going back to Oahu to start school and look for a job. If any architecture firms in Honolulu need a space-intern I’m available! Still curious if we’ll have anything like…Earth culture shock, or a sudden decompression emotionally and cry a lot, or who knows! It still feels like I’m just going to be living here forever, and there are people outside on my lawn. Darn kids.

Well! I gotta put my dorky red shirt on and think of snarky things to say to stereotypical media comments. All of us are pretty sure that we’ll be asked what we want to eat when we return to Earth…when there’s a breakfast buffet right there. If I can time it, I want to belch at them. Classic.

I’ll talk to ya all in a bit, have some new shirts that are finished (we’ll just put those in one big post) and if you wanna follow my adventures in grad school, space architecture, internships, and life in general…well I could be bothered to write in here from time to time, why not right? It’s like a journal you know people read.

Looking forward to coming back to Earth! If I caught any Martian diseases, prepare yourself for the inevitable plague! Dun dun dunnn!!!

]]>https://artchitecturefrommars.com/2016/08/28/getting-out/feed/1tenkennokaitenMore Goofy Arthttps://artchitecturefrommars.com/2016/08/23/more-goofy-art/
https://artchitecturefrommars.com/2016/08/23/more-goofy-art/#commentsTue, 23 Aug 2016 20:51:40 +0000http://artchitecturefrommars.wordpress.com/?p=546]]>So we’re packing up the hab now, half or more of everything I even had has been packed and is ready to ship back to Honolulu. Between doing chores and trying to eat all the good food left in the hab, I of course have been doodling a bit more. Today’s theme, the sea!

I’m a lover of puns (who isn’t right?) and lately my drawings have been reflecting that a bit. I also have something of a fascination with the octopus, it’s in several of my other drawings, and one night when I’d had a bit too much chocolate and was sugar-high I thought octo as in octopus and puss as in a cat. Like Puss in Boots, but an octopus!

It’s hard living in my head at times, yeah…

I didn’t actually manage to save progress drawings of this one, because it was all done entirely on the computer (didn’t really sketch it) and it’s a simple flat style of art, so it sort of just came together really fast and sketch layers were rapidly painted over. But still, the work amuses me and I love to share, so here ya go!

One of the lesser known sea monsters

I’ve got this guy up on Threadless right now too, hopefully it’ll do ok in the voting! Haven’t won a design submission on there yet…but someday! Here’s the link if you want to leave a fun comment or something! https://www.threadless.com/designs/octopuss-11

Assorted colors, like skittles!

Finally, I can of course make it whatever color I want. I do like the navy and silver…but that red one is cool too. Or the teal! Which colors do you like? What are even some of your favorite color combos? If you were to have this design on say…a throw pillow, what would you want the color to be?

Be back soon with more art, and probably terrified shrieks from having a million people bothering us every minute of the day the second we get out of here. I wish there were a way to fulfill our media obligations while also being left entirely alone. I just want to go on a walk and get a hamburger, le sigh…I shall have you soon, bacon/avocado burger from Teddy’s….soon…!!

It’s tough to keep fit on Mars. The real Mars that is, here we still have a full Earth gravity so those weights can be annoyingly heavy! But even so, part of living here entails daily workouts. This is partially to get in shape (some of us have lost 20lbs or more!) but also is something of a psychological catharsis. Moving, sweating, jumping, music going. Such things make confinement easier to bear.

One of the most prevalent forms of exercise in the dome involves our poor poor treadmill, which we pretty much have stomped into an early retirement. The motherboard on it gave out once already, which needed to be replaced before it’d go again, but at this point we’re kind of waiting for it to snap in half. Carmel is, far and away, the most run-loving person in here. It’s even money at any hour of the day that she’s on that thing, watching a show while putting the miles behind her. If we didn’t have a prohibition against running at night (crazy loud) she probably wouldn’t sleep either.

Due to her constant running, and then her training for (and finishing) a marathon, I thought it’d be fun to do something like that myself. She is quite the enabler when it comes to exercise, so in addition to every inside secret of the shoe or stride that she knows, she found this neat little schedule for me some months back.

The “Novice” schedule from Hal Higdon Training, I did Novice 2, but couldn’t find the sheet, haha! It’s just a few more miles each week

Basically, you try to follow this as close as you can. Some miles you don’t run on say..a Tuesday due to clouds (and hence no solar power) you can add to another day, whatever you like. As long as for each week, you get those miles! In about 4 months, if all goes to plan, marathon! I should forewarn you that this is a lot harder than it looks. Toes get blisters, you get rashes in goofy places, and I’m pretty sure I’ve got a toenail that’s going to fall off one of these days. But man, the calories you burn! And the runners high (endorphins!) is well worth the effort.

Then, if you’ve tried really hard to keep to your schedule, and/or have a Carmel that will chase you around with a wooden spoon till you get on that treadmill like you promised, you’ll be ready for a marathon! When I started that day, I had Hammer Gel (from Montana, Huckleberry flavor!) a camelback hanging from the ceiling that needed to be refilled partway through, three fans, a tablet full of movies, and a spray bottle with a note that encouraged people to mist me if they happened to be walking by. There was also some Tosca cake that Carmel made, and sour patch kids for fast sugar. And over 5hrs later….

Getting that number hurt, ugh…

I managed to do it! I was actually only going to run to 20 miles, then taper for three weeks before shooting for the marathon (look at the training schedule!) but it was so close…and 6.2 miles isn’t THAT much, and I just went for it. Good times! I think I’ll do this again someday, but REALLY want to do it outside. Treadmills suck!

To date, that makes Carmel, Cyprien, and me the crazy Martians who’ve managed to run a marathon…in Space! Sort of. We have many other workouts, from squats while a backpack full of spam and another crew member sit on your back as weight, to running up and down the stairs, but long story short, if you’re going to another planet, or live there already, keeping fit and shooting for lofty goals is one of the best ways to keep yourself sane. And come back to Earth in great shape! After all, I live in Hawai’i normally, so it’s always swimsuit season, so much pressure!

Just a little picture I threw together for our 300th mission day. We did what we could to look like Spartans with some blankets, ha! I would have worn one myself, but someone killed me with a ski pole. Only 65 more days to go!

]]>https://artchitecturefrommars.com/2016/06/24/mission-day-300/feed/0tenkennokaitenOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAGrow Up Mario!https://artchitecturefrommars.com/2016/06/19/grow-up-mario/
https://artchitecturefrommars.com/2016/06/19/grow-up-mario/#commentsSun, 19 Jun 2016 21:40:18 +0000http://artchitecturefrommars.wordpress.com/?p=485]]>And after about seventeen years I finally finished drawing this one as well as the border I wanted for it, phew! Took me forever. But here is the progress for the completion of the red Mario mushroom, which if you can get past the piranha plants will allow you to take one extra hit from flying turtles, chain chomps, or huge bullet things. Bowser too of course, that guy is a cranky one.
To start, the basic pen drawing! I sort of just sat down and made this one, so there wasn’t a pencil sketch or anything to start from. Full disclosure, just wanted to draw a crazy mutated mushroom and realized after the pen drawing was done that I could make it into a Mario theme, ha!And starting to color things! Had a lot of fun playing with red colors, as you can tell. Made it all 3D and fun, yes! I enjoy doing the coloring of pen drawings.And starting to get the colors of the grass and rocks and stuff in as well. Just to make sure the center of the picture is nice and put together, because the border of this thing ended up taking a long time to put together!

Trying to figure out what I’d like for the border, the grass is a little creepy yeah?

Yeah that grass was creepy and I replaced it with a bunch of chompy piranha plants. But…they’re sorta everywhere….no….need to make a more balanced chompy composition.Ok this is starting to get better, off-axis, a big chompy thing, and larger less haunted grass. Nearly there!And done! Made the background a little darker, shined up the red mushroom, that’s all I wrote! It looks delicious! But yeah…those plants will bite ya!

Finally got that piece done and out of my WIP folder, yeesh! Now I have to start a bunch more, why do my hobbies feel more like compulsions!?

We’ve been here 8 months now, today is the day we become the longest duration HI-SEAS mission ever, how about that?? Another fun fact, longest US mission ever! It’s true the Mars500 mission was longer, but that makes us what…the second longest in history?

I wish I had some champagne in here! Only four more months and I’ll be back on Earth, hope you guys fix that global warming before I arrive, that’d be sweet. Till then!